AI Native Founding Product and Platform Engineer

About the role

SGS, a global testing, inspection and certification company, is reimagining a legacy system from the ground up. As Founding Product & Platform Engineer, you will define the architecture, tooling, engineering culture and development practices behind the next generation of SGS digital products. You will design distributed systems, build customer-facing experiences, create cloud platforms and write production code, leading by example through hands-on delivery rather than governance.

Key responsibilities

• Act as technical lead on the most important initiatives, architecting through code and setting the standard for engineering excellence.
• Design and develop full-stack solutions, from frontend experiences to backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Shape the platform (CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, observability) so other engineers can ship faster and more safely.
• Turn successful patterns into shared services, frameworks, libraries and architectural standards.
• Remove friction from the development lifecycle through automation, standardisation and thoughtful platform design.
• Partner with engineers, product leads and designers to raise technical standards and encourage pragmatic, high-quality delivery.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience, with strong backgrounds in product engineering and platform/SRE work.
• A builder-first approach: writes the code that makes architecture reviews unnecessary, and believes the best architecture is the simplest one that works.
• Experience working closely with Product and Design teams to deliver solutions users value.

Required skills

• Expert React/TypeScript on the frontend, and distributed backends in Go, Python or TypeScript.
• Cloud and IaC: architectural-level experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS) and Terraform.
• Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines built from scratch (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Monitoring, tracing and testing, including Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger.

What we offer

• The chance to work with a global leader in inspection, verification, testing and certification.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.